Co-construction of competence in language socialization

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract This chapter examines the co-construction of competence in language socialization, defining competence as a socially distributed and interactionally achieved phenomenon shaped by timescales and realized through participation in culturally organized activities. It synthesizes research from linguistic anthropology, conversation analysis, and childhood studies to show how prompting, ventriloquizing, elicited imitation, and reported speech distribute speaker roles and hearer roles and ascribe competence. The chapter presents a case study of a child in a multilingual Japanese, English, and Indonesian-speaking family, showing how multimodal interaction and a conversation book enable the collaborative production of a culturally appropriate gratitude expression. It shows that competence is negotiated, contingent, and dynamic, as participants recruit, contest, and transform roles, mobilize linguistic and embodied resources, and bridge present limitations with projected future abilities. Finally, the chapter argues that co-construction in multilingual contexts is bidirectional and collaborative, shapes identities, relationships, and learning trajectories, and calls for further research on distributed competence across institutional and sociocultural contexts.
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Authors Matthew Burdelski
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
DOI
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198873174.013.0001
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198873174.013.0001
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